Freeware Chess programs/utilities

Does anyone know of any good freeware chess programs or utilities to download?

Originally posted by Czech M8
Does anyone know of any good freeware chess programs or utilities to download?

What kind of ?

I'm looking for anything chess related actually - chess playing engines/game databases/game analysis

Originally posted by Czech M8
I'm looking for anything chess related actually - chess playing engines/game databases/game analysis

Chessmaster 10th is as cheap as 10 euro... And it has countless features, tutorials and drills. As for free software, I do not know very good but I am sure someone other will reply and help you. You can download Shredder Classic trial (it lasts 30 days but it can be overrided easily 😛)


www.shredderchess.com

Originally posted by Czech M8
I'm looking for anything chess related actually - chess playing engines/game databases/game analysis

Some that come to mind are:

Free chess GUIs: Arena 1.1:

http://www.playwitharena.com/


Free chess Engines: (Many to choose from! Usually UCI engines are easier to install into Arena than Winboard engines.)

http://www.superchessengine.com/

http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/index.html

Also, here's a brand new free UCI engine that's very strong and reportedly has a fairly aggressive style:
http://computerchess.org.uk/Toga/TogaIIv3.1.2SE.zip


Free chess database programs:

New Scid author:
http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/

Original Scid author:
http://scid.sourceforge.net/

http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/

http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/

http://www.wmlsoftware.com/chesspad.html


Free chess games database:
http://icofy.net

Here are some useful links:
http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm

www.chessopolis.com

Has links for anything ya need.

Dave

Here's another interesting computer chess link that I'd forgotten about. It looks like this guy cherry picks the stuff he likes the best, and it looks like he keeps it up to date.

http://freechess.50webs.com/index.html

Originally posted by Mad Rook
Here's another interesting computer chess link that I'd forgotten about. It looks like this guy cherry picks the stuff he likes the best, and it looks like he keeps it up to date.

http://freechess.50webs.com/index.html

You are like chess links encyclopedia 😛 And it is not the first time you post ton of good links 😛

Originally posted by ivan2908
You are like chess links encyclopedia 😛 And it is not the first time you post ton of good links 😛

You should see how long my bookmark list is. What can I say, it's a sickness. 😞

also google "ibase". it's a huge database. and do not forget about chess tactics server, it's the ultimate free tactics study tool: chess.emrald.net

if you google good enough, you can find reinfeld's 1001 combinations book free in .pgn format, which is also supposed to be great.